zagadnienie

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Polish

Etymology

From zagadnąć +‎ -enie. First attested in 1750.[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /za.ɡadˈɲɛ.ɲɛ/
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  • Rhymes: -ɛɲɛ
  • Syllabification: za‧gad‧nie‧nie

Noun

zagadnienie n

  1. (countable) issue, matter, problem
    Synonym: problem
  2. (uncountable, obsolete) verbal noun of zagadnąć
    Synonym: zagadnięcie

Declension

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), zagadnienie is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 26 times in news, 80 times in essays, 1 time in fiction, and 4 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 151 times, making it the 381st most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[2]

References

  1. ^ Salezy Franciszek (1750) Traktat Miłosci Boskiey we Dwunastu Xięgach (in Polish), page 158
  2. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “zagadnienie”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 730

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